BenLewis

Design Strategy and Consumer Behavior.

I'm busy doing awesome things that get in the way of keeping my coroflot portfolio up to date.
Check out my website (in all of its up to dateness) here.
benlewiscreative.com

Work Samples

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Work History

Freelance Designer

Ben Lewis Creative.

Nov 2009 - Present (7 years 1 month)

Developed a one piece display fixture through research and innovation to interface with both of the predominant retail display systems. This doubled production volume to reduce per unit cost. Used visual communication to convey complex ideas to Chinese factories, ensuring original design intent and product quality. Redesigned a helmet fit system, reducing the cost by over 50%. The result is a universal design which is operable with only one hand. Conceived, developed, and implemented a holistic brand solution for a high end apparel start up that spans the physical product, website interface, and social media. http://benlewiscreative.com

Founder

Plainsman Bikes

Mar 2011 - Jul 2012 (1 year 4 months)

Funded, organized, marketed, and managed a non profit bike shop start up. Publicly presented our values and services to the Auburn City Council to successfully battle legislation that stood in conflict with our mission statement. I worked closely with the Planning and Zoning Office to explore possible locations for the shop. http:/plainsmanbikes.org

Design Consultant

Elevations Inc.

May 2010 - Jul 2010 (2 months)

Automated over a third of company projects to reduce CAD production time by over 80%. This allowed the company to meet customer demands without expanding its design team. http://www.elevations.com/

Design Intern

Fitch

Jan 2008 - Mar 2008 (2 months)

Design Intern

Studio Red

Apr 2007 - Jun 2007 (2 months)

Design Intern

DenTek Oral Care, Inc.

Sep 2006 - Dec 2006 (3 months)

Design Intern

New Balance

Apr 2006 - Jun 2006 (2 months)

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Masters in Product Development Product Development

2013 - 2014

http://www.cmu.edu/mpd/

University of Cincinnati

Bachelors of Science Design

2003 - 2008

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

na International Design Workshop

2005 - 2005

A cross cultural design workshop drawing students from Korea, China, Holland, Sweden, and the US. This experience provided an insight to different design philosophies as well as different regional cultures. Eight years later I can look back and say that as Americans, we had been culturally indoctrinated into a dogma of longer hours and fewer breaks. My specific undergraduate program focused more intently on the what than the why. We were trained to move forward and produce while our Asian and European counterparts were more dedicated to find out why we were producing and what needed to be produced.